Updated: 2013 preseason QB snap counts

Summary of 4 articles · Updated Aug 27, 2013

Thanks to ESPN's Mike Sando for keeping the updated quarterback snap counts. Flacco's snap counts are skewed. ESPN.com’s Mike Sando compiled preseason snap counts for all 32 presumptive starting quarterbacks, and Rodgers’ 45 snaps rank him 30 on that list… (more). If you take out the projected starters who missed a preseason game, there are only six who have played fewer snaps than Dalton this preseason. That means he now has played 62 snaps this preseason. It’s understandable that established quarterbacks like Rodgers, who this offseason signed a five-year, $110 million contract extension, might not need the same number of snaps as a developmental starter such as Miami’s Ryan Tannehill or Tennessee’s Jake Locker .

Checking NFC South QB snap counts

Last week, we made a big deal about how Tampa Bay quarterback Josh Freeman had taken so few snaps in the first two preseason games. Well, that trend changed in the exhibition game against Miami on Saturday night. Freeman played 41 snaps (although he was…

AFC North quarterback snap counts

Coming into the preseason, everyone would agree that the Cleveland Browns' Brandon Weeden needed to receive the most work of any AFC North quarterback. Not only did he have to prove he's the starter, but he's also in his second season and would benefit …

Rodgers near bottom of QB snap counts

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Even if Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers does play in Thursday’s preseason finale at Kansas City -- something that appears unlikely -- this will be his lightest exhibition workload since he became a starter in 2008. Through…